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Two Foods, One Method

The same five measures, applied to each food from its own figures.

Every food here is made by Gentle Giants, so the recall row cannot separate them.

Prices are the lowest per pound we found across bag sizes, from our latest checks. Stores change prices often.

Two Foods, One Method. Each row is one measure; the best figure in a row is marked.
01 Gentle Giants Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Meat Lovers - with Real Beef & Real Bacon - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients Swap Remove 02 Gentle Giants Wild Caught Salmon - Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Seafood Lovers - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients Swap Remove + Add A Food + Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream. 01 Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Meat Lovers - with Real Beef & Real Bacon - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients 24.4% 02 Wild Caught Salmon - Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Seafood Lovers - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients 26.7% Best in this row
02 Carbohydrate Load, Dry Matter Lower Is Better Estimated, 6% ash assumed. Estimated, not measured. It is what is left of the guaranteed analysis once protein, fat, fiber and moisture are taken out, with ash assumed at 6%. That leftover is mostly starch but also carries sugars and the fiber a crude-fiber test misses, so read it as a close estimate rather than an exact figure. Measured as fed, the same basis as the bag. 01 Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Meat Lovers - with Real Beef & Real Bacon - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients 54% 49.0% as fed 02 Wild Caught Salmon - Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Seafood Lovers - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients 50% 45.0% as fed Best in this row
03 Named Proteins In The First Five Count of named animal proteins. The count matches any named animal word in the opening five ingredients, so it also counts animal fats and flavourings as proteins. It is shown because it is one of the five measured lines, but it is too rough to call a winner on. 01 Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Meat Lovers - with Real Beef & Real Bacon - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients 1 of 5 02 Wild Caught Salmon - Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Seafood Lovers - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients 2 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list. 01 Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Meat Lovers - with Real Beef & Real Bacon - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients None 02 Wild Caught Salmon - Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Seafood Lovers - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients None
05 Brand Recall History Level Manufacturer, not recipe. 01 Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Meat Lovers - with Real Beef & Real Bacon - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients None 02 Wild Caught Salmon - Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Seafood Lovers - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients None
Starch, As Fed Estimated, not measured. It is what is left of the guaranteed analysis once protein, fat, fiber and moisture are taken out, with ash assumed at 6%. That leftover is mostly starch but also carries sugars and the fiber a crude-fiber test misses, so read it as a close estimate rather than an exact figure. Measured as fed, the same basis as the bag. 01 Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Meat Lovers - with Real Beef & Real Bacon - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients 49.0% 02 Wild Caught Salmon - Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Seafood Lovers - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients 45.0%
Kcal / Cup 01 Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Meat Lovers - with Real Beef & Real Bacon - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients 358 02 Wild Caught Salmon - Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Seafood Lovers - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients 350
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes 01 Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Meat Lovers - with Real Beef & Real Bacon - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients $2.12 24 lb bag, Chewy 02 Wild Caught Salmon - Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Seafood Lovers - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients $3.17 18 lb bag, Walmart
Cost / 1,000 Kcal Lower Is Cheaper To Feed What the same amount of energy costs, so a denser food is not penalized for a higher price per pound. 01 Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Meat Lovers - with Real Beef & Real Bacon - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients $1.41 Best in this row 02 Wild Caught Salmon - Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Seafood Lovers - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients $2.14
First Five Ingredients 01 Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Meat Lovers - with Real Beef & Real Bacon - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients Beef Meal, Pearled Barley, Brown Rice, Oatmeal, Peas 02 Wild Caught Salmon - Gentle Giants ‘Quality of Life’ Feast for Seafood Lovers - Dog and Puppy Food Natural, Non GMO Ingredients Salmon Meal, Potatoes, Peas, Tapioca, Salmon Oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols)

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Every figure here is the food's own. Protein and carbohydrate are converted to dry matter so foods of different moisture can be set beside each other; starch is estimated from the guaranteed analysis with ash assumed at 6.0%, and the recall record belongs to the manufacturer rather than to the recipe. Two rows are printed but never marked: the named-protein count, because the detection behind it is too rough to call a winner on, and calories, because neither more nor fewer is better without knowing the dog.

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